4.8.09

let’s check out this promotional tourism video of rio from 1936 (via steeeev):

beautiful stuff, though obv a promotional tactic of the good neighbor policies of that era. check this nonsense quote from the above clip:

As in most countries of South America, the color of one’s skin does not always determine one’s social standing. As a matter of fact that the racial color line seems to be so thinly drawn that it has become a haven of toleration for all races…